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Maker of ZZT games.

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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's out! You can play the game for free here: stale-meme.itch.io/chomp
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CHOMP by WiL (stale-meme)
Game of Gnomes
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'll be streaming the release of CHOMP at www.twitch.tv/Stale_Meme_E... - here in about an hour I will start streaming, go through some of the inspirations and original (scrapped) plans for the game, then drop it on Itch for all to enjoy.
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stale_meme_emporium - Twitch
ZZT Development Streams and nothing else. — stale_meme_emporium streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A little over 24 hours until CHOMP drops at stale-meme.itch.io - Beating the game now unlocks bonus leadership styles with more powerful special skills at the cost of greater drawbacks. Both require developing brand new strategies for success.
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Less than a week to go, just filling in the corners with all the little doodads and fidly bits necessary to list a game on an online marketplace. You'll be able to find it September 3rd on stale-meme.itch.io
Astride two abstract sets of teeth, the words "CHOMP: A Surreal-Time Strategy Game". Over one set of teeth a fuchsia ribbon with the word "NEW!" emblazoned thereon in white.
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Finally ready to announce CHOMP - the new strategy game from Mean Girls Games! You can see the trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Cq... it will be my pleasure to entertain you on the 3rd.
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CHOMP - Release Trailer
YouTube video by Keysick Music
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I wasn't sure if my moe bunger post reached you but clearly the universe was listening:
A discord post from Valentines Day 2025 showing a bunger with crossed eyes and extended tongue. The text: "bunger ahegao? someone her a hold of PTibz" appears above the image.
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It's been a long road to the final version. Congratulations on getting the definitive edition out there for folks to see. I've enjoyed seeing the progress on it over the years.
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
* The resurrection of a beloved 90s classic * By its original author * Constitutes the best iteration on this idea yet seen You could do worse than to give this a shot. Well-paced challenge, charming art, peak puzzling. Bravo.
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Meet the girls of CANNONBALL RUN 2177! From left to right: Lucida - Posthuman Ari - Bee-derived GMH Carmen - Immortal Ryda - Famous Family Opal - Pure Biotech Null - Unknown Priviu - Precog Juno - Brassica Cultivar Tivva - Not from Earth Learn more: keysick.com/CBR2177 (Gorgeous art by @Nixhil7)
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The Trailer is out! Spread the word: youtu.be/l2_YyXGNYGI CANNONBALL RUN 2177 is a management sim where you traverse the US by car. The story depends on your loadout, inventory, driver, passengers, weather, and choices, making no two runs alike. Hit the Feelies page for more: keysick.com/CBR2177/
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Cannonball Run 2177 - Release Trailer
YouTube video by Keysick Music
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goldbuick @zed.cafe · 05/12/2025
keysick.com/CBR2177/ a new MS-DOS game in 2025, made by my brother ??? itch.io/jam/dosember... Well it's all y'alls time to be a chaotic race car driver in 2177 !
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
O yeah, that's me! We'll have a "Grand Opening" tomorrow. If I'm feeling frisky I'll even put a trailer up :D
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
@tomvii.bsky.social This is maybe a bit long in the tooth for memory but the lowest-scoring album-a-day of all time (-1,000,000 points!) turned 20 a few months ago and I went back and revisited the album: stale-meme.bandcamp.com/album/projec...
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Project 17 Sherman Takes a Trip (2024 ed.), by Keysick
18 track album
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Logoed clothing should come with a sew-on patch: "This person's words and deeds are their own and do not represent [logo], and should not be construed as advertisement or promotion of [logo]. [logo] does not guarantee the relevance or completeness of this person."
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Worlds of ZZT @worldsofzzt.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Three ZZT releases on disk were recently acquired, and tomorrow their contents will be revealed and uploaded! There is something on one of these disks that isn't just a text file which hasn't been seen before...
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
33 years later, we're still makin gaaaaaames!!!
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
@prettypinkpansy.bsky.social I was gonna tag you because subtle graphic design alluding to big naturals is a pretty niche achievement, but I've since learned that sometimes nature just hands you the perfect label and you do the rest.
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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Oh, and my finger hit the shutter button at just the right instant to catch this picture.
White bufflehead duck in the water seen from behind, its bill open mid-quack
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Gold Duck Bonus
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
An ancient ZZT project from 2006, TAHWAIN, is finally seeing release as a Weave title: stale-meme.itch.io/tahwain if you know anything about ZZT, this one might be up your alley. Check it out!
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Tahwain by WiL
or, The Dead God
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
if centar war cloths a shirt and pants very normale there must be a new kind of agarment in the middle to hold the front cloppitys that arent the arms I am calling it a Shants it would have to be a stretch fabric like a jersey that could be pulled on over either the hindcloppitieys or the fronttorso
A centaur with the caption "if centaur wear clothes" astride it.  The centaur's clothes are diagrammed and labeled "shirt", in red, "pants", in blue, and "shants" covering its forelegs, in purple.
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I will beat any human or animal at this game. I will beat you as my main and then beat you as Dan on the rematch. All I need is a time machine for my hands, the spirit is willing but the flesh has aged 30 years.
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
13% of my serotonin is in this screenshot.
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
One of my favorite ZOZ avatars by TGH! For reference, this is what that attack looks like in-game: (My humble skills as programmer notwithstanding, the avatar is gorgeous at any scale)
On the left, a kangaroo with floor-length red hair brandishes a pair of truncheons at two robots named "Slinger" and "Zroid" on the right. A row of cards at the bottom includes the "Crash" attack, which is currently highlighted in preparation of its being played.
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I checked out joey's itch page and it would have been cool to be able to see some of his design philosophy in application. Maybe that'll be for a future article. In the meantime, I've just completed my own examination of design patterns in gaming, and it's playable! stale-meme.itch.io/purpose
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Purpose by WiL
A Playable Essay on Design and Community
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
1 down, SCUMBROUS. 1 across, SQUIRTINGCUCUMBER, all one word. 2 across, RZECZPOSPOLITAPOLSKA, all one word. 2 down, GLUCOSAMINE.
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Well now I don't have any eyes but you don't have any Klimts. So who's the worse off between us really
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
What kind of guy ain't know bout no Klimts? That's not a thing I'd be tellin folks tbh, bein' ignorant about Klimts liable to get you the wrong sort of enemies these days. Go find yourself a Klimt and have a good hard look. Then pick a couple outta my collection. It's that simple.
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
couple a Klimts. I dont care which ones but make one of them the kitty cats
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Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰 @computerjames.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Best Nonfiction game 🏆📝 PURPOSE by @lbc.bsky.social youre a smiling pixel wandering across an empassioned manifesto about creativity and games. WiL has been making games with ZZT software for 31 years so has real thoughts for you to ramble around. Intimate and Inspiring stale-meme.itch.io/purpose
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I knew I was saving my channel points for something big, but…
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A Stillness In The Air @verasev.northsky.social · 14/12/2024
Played Cold by WiL (stale-meme.itch.io/cold) and it honestly scared me more than most other horror games. Real panic inducing.
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Cold by WiL
An adventure in the ice.
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
O hey - the game I made over thanksgiving weekend is out of beta and consumable by all and sundry: stale-meme.itch.io/cold please to enjoy an arctic! (Also very cold temperatures are scary, consider yourself warned)
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Cold by WiL
An adventure in the ice.
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
AI Autocomplete giving us the game mechanics of the future
A game design document with the heading "Starting Rooms" and the content "Have a collection of rooms that are marked as starting rooms. These will be where players spawn." Below it an AI autocomplete suggestion of "Ending Rooms" with the content "Have a collection of rooms that are marked as ending rooms, these will be the rooms where players go to die."
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Through the power of emergence, I accidentally created the bleakest game in my worldography over Thanksgiving weekend. if you have a keyboard and a web browser and want to give it a try, ping me here and I'll send you a link to the HTML5 build.
DOS-era text reads "Press SPACE to continue shivering."
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
zephyr2525.itch.io/ramen-quest There is a troll chef (maybe the same as a troll cook?) in this game Ramen Quest which was an entry to Oktrollberfest 2020
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Ramen Quest by Zephyr
A ZZT RAMEN CHALLENGE!
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
If you see this, I invite you to post a picture from (whatever device you’re using) without explanation
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Literally my arch nemesis rn >_< meangirls.itch.io/weave-3/
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Weave 3 by Mean Girls Games
A utility for modding ZZT games.
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
If you don’t mind things veering into… blue territory, TangoPunk sounds like it would be right up your alley. Lots of intensely researched, thoughtful writeups of obscure PC98 dating sims, weird pachinko machines, and fascinating errata about more popular titles as well. An undercirculated delight.
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The Green Herring @thegreenherring.art · 05/10/2024
Featured at Deadline 2024 (www.demoparty.berlin): "Circus of Dreams", an infinite canvas #ANSIArt comic! Check out its page on my website to see it in its full scrolling glory! thegreenherring.neocities.org/art/2024/TGH... #FurryArt #Furry #SciFiArt #SciFi
In a city at night, a throng of people with animal features files into a huge, red and white-striped circus tent with two peaks. Inside the circus tent, a smiling ringtail person in a green leotard, wearing green gloves, thigh-high boots and bands on their tail, walks across a tightrope while holding a long wooden balance pole, with a massive audience watching below.From the stage beneath the tightrope, a white skunk with a red mohawk, singlet and bracelets juggles red and white checkered balls. As the audience watches, a raccoon with long red hair and a blue dress dances with their hand gripping and pulling a line of light they are drawing in the air with a plasma pen.In the circus audience, a muscular rabbit and a slender squirrel cheer with raised arms. As the satisfied audience leaves the circus tent, the muscular rabbit, in a blue tank top and white trousers, and the slender squirrel, in a cropped blue t-shirt and side slit skirt, hold hands as they walk, looking into each other's eyes.
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The Green Herring @thegreenherring.art · 01/10/2024
#HeyCohost, in 2023, I did #ANSIArt of #Eggbug. That was too easy, so I did a furry version, "Super Eggbug". Over-the-top, but it did "severals". Then yesterday, I did a speed-draw of him as Eggbug's spirit guardian to mark #Cohost 's closure the next day. May you never be forgotten! #FurryArt
Eggbug! A simple, solid maroon bean with black circle eyes, a cat smile, four visible bug legs and two curved lines for wings. At the top is the Cohost header bar with the logo, @TheGreenHerring's icon and handle, the post button, and the "sign out" button. In the lower right is the signature "TGH! 2023."A tall, muscular man with maroon skin, a vaguely animalistic face, white eyes and long dark hair, with a gigantic set of insect wings, alongside two pairs of arms and a complete set of upper chest muscles for each pair. He is wearing an off-white necklace; large, detached sleeves of an off-white color with maroon trimming; a pair of large, billowing trousers in an off-white color with maroon trimmings, a maroon belt and a maroon loincloth that goes down to the cuffs; and off-white sandals on his feet. He is pressing his hands together above his head with his upper pair of arms, and resting the hands on his lower pair of arms on his hips. At the top is the Cohost header bar with the logo, @TheGreenHerring's icon and handle, the post button, and the "sign out" button. In the bottom right is the signature "TGH! 2023".A portrait of a tall, muscular man with maroon skin, white eyes and long dark hair with a maroon shine from the upper pecs up at a three-fourths angle. His animalistic face has a short, vaguely reptilian snout extending from it that obscures one of his eyes when viewed from that angle. He is wearing a segmented and metallic necklace. His lower set of pecs can be partially seen at the bottom. At the top is the Cohost header bar with the logo, @TheGreenHerring's icon and handle, the post button, and the "sign out" button. In the upper right is the signature "TGH! 2023".Under the Cohost browser bar of a user named "@TheGreenHerring", the spirit of a muscular maroon insectoid man with long hair and closed eyes wearing a necklace floats over a happy, sleeping egg-shaped bug known as "Eggbug" with an ethereal message: "Safe travels, little one. May my power protect you..." The Cohost logo appears below, with the dates, "2022-2024", and a message reads, "Find @TheGreenHerring at: thegreenherring.neocities.org". In the middle left is the signature "TGH! 2024".
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
I promised it, and here it is: stale-meme.itch.io/purpose sorry users on mobile but you need a keyboard for this one. might make a version that is for touchscreens at some point. Enjoy
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Purpose by WiL
A Playable Essay on Design and Community
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
While working on my game, I started a little side project where I wrote down my thoughts on design and how they might be used to free a creator that's currently blocked. I look forward to providing the complete experience in a week or so. #screenshotsaturday
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
An oddly beautiful summary of an oddly beautiful game in the genre of my current project (point-and-click adventure). A good reminder that lit crit can be uplifting while remaining analytical. Brava, June.
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
Hi fellow users of the #ArtistsOnCohost tag, I made ANSI art on chost and will continue to post it here. I've given into the brain rot and will never not be drawing plantgirls... For a weird journey through my work over the years, check out worldography-pictures.s3.amazonaws.com/PictureWorld...
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Wobbly "Cheap Date" Python @wobblypython.northsky.social · 18/08/2024
What if God's only son was Plok instead of Jesus?
A pencil illustration of Plok. His hands and feet have been nailed to a cross.

Above it is written "The Passion of the Plok", also in pencil.
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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ PRGE @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
This Saturday, Indiepocalypse Radio returns at 2pm ET with guest @lbc.bsky.social ! Tune in it at indiepocalypse.com/radio Send questions to indiepocalypse.com/questions
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
I gotchu
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
Movie from the year you turned 30
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stale-meme.itch.io @lbc.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
soundcloud.com/keysick/moin... Moin Moin. If you're not hip to the Hitem scene you should be: <https://vxtwitter.com/eprombeats/status/1818410731584544967>
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Moin Moin
Softer and slightly off spec hitem track for my catgirls to dance to without tirin' em completely out
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